Ep 99: Science... sort of - Growing up Science
Science... sort of
Brachiolope
4.7 • 674 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2011
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
00:00:00 - Dr. Jai Ranganathan, of the podcast Curiouser and Curiouser, joins the Paleopals to talk about his new initiative, the #SciFund Challenge, which is a radical new idea on how to fun science. The Paleopals have concerns, but Jai makes this sound just crazy enough to work. Definitely a story we'll be sticking with as it moves forward.
00:37:05 - One thing the Paleopals make sure to fund each week are some tasty drinks. Patrick gets his hands on a can of Old Chub. Charlie is unimpressed by a local IPA. Kelly steals an OK porter from the lab fridge. And Ryan man's up with a Sea Smoke Barleywine.
00:44:38 - This week Trailer Trash Talk focuses on what is best in life. Well, maybe not so much as there are mixed feelings about Conan. Ryan does his best to do right by friends while defending this pulp icon, but will the other Paleopals be convinced?
01:00:22 - Neoteny is a funny thing, and one of Ryan and Patrick's favorite subjects in biology. The critter in question is the above pictured axolotl, which serves as a prime example of the concept but will grow up with nothing more than a bit of iodine. Something science has known for nearly 100 years.
01:18:03 - PaleoPOWs are in many ways neotenous. They could grow up, by why bother? Ryan gets some botanical taxonomic corrections from Chris H. as well as abit of Special Edition love from Lisa V. S. Patrick gets positive with a bit of cash from Doug S. Thanks, Doug! Kelly gets a complimentary call from Colleen out of Michigan. And finally Charlie has some support from Julien on the Facebook page as the Paleopals push for 1,000 fans before next week.
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Music for this week's show:
A Dollar And A Dream - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
It's Getting Boring By The Sea - Blood Read Shoes
Blood, Sex and Booze - Green Day
When You Were Young - The Killers
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Charlie? |
| 0:01.8 | You got nothing to you. |
| 0:03.2 | You need me. |
| 0:03.6 | Whoa, there's that. |
| 0:05.6 | You're hearing your voice. |
| 0:06.8 | There's that one about Al. |
| 0:08.2 | Hello, and welcome to Science Sort of. |
| 0:17.1 | You're listening to Science Sort of. |
| 0:19.2 | This is the big episode 9-9. And this week's theme is |
| 0:22.6 | growing up with science, which we've obviously done a lot of since episode number one way |
| 0:27.4 | back and the way back. I'm your host Ryan, joining me this week to talk about things that |
| 0:31.4 | are science, things that are sort of science and things that wish they were science. Are |
| 0:35.1 | my paleo palo palo partners in crime. Patrick. I guess we should have named this one red balloons I'll probably use the |
| 0:41.9 | song now that you've used the song before actually so I don't think I can use it again |
| 0:45.2 | I'm pretty careful about that yeah well you can use the German version I guess the |
| 0:49.6 | luff balloon I could I could but what about Charlie what was Charlie have to say? I was trying to think of another song. |
| 0:56.0 | Party like it's 1999, but we're off by a good bit. |
| 1:01.7 | And we've also got Kelly. |
| 1:03.7 | Hey, hey. |
| 1:04.5 | She's here to apologize for keeping Patrick and Charlie locked up for as long as she did. |
| 1:08.3 | I let them out. |
| 1:11.2 | To test their motion cameras. |
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